Improvement in equalizers



No. 81,612. Patented March 9, 1869.

DGRAPQER. WASHINGTON D C N. PUERS. PHOTO UTN GEORGE W. N. Yosr, or CORRY, PENNSYLVANIA. Leners Pawn: No. 87,612, dated Ma/rc1 9, 1869.

l IMPROVEMENT 4IN EQUALIZERS.

l... l '.l'heA Schedule raten-ed to in these Letters Patent and making part of theA same.`

To all interested:

I, GEORGE W. N. YOST, of Corry, Pennsylvania,

have` invented a Climax Whittle-Tree Buffer, and an Improved Stay for Draught-Whiifle-Trees.

In the operation of hauling substances by animalteams, if the thing hauled impinge against any unyielding obstacle, the team is more or less affected exhaustively bythe shock of such impingement, and

more or less extra strain and breakage f the harness,

or draught-gearing, is consequent thereon; and one object of vthe invention is to provide a yielding buffer torelieve that shock and strain. y

VAlso, in the operation of hauling byanimal-teams, if the main whiiie-tree or double-tree swings cr plays on a4 pivot in the middle, the nervous fractiousness of one or more of the animals of the team, frequently causes 'one to pull when 'another will'not, and another to pull when the one willnot, one going forward and anothelfsbackward, in'a seesaw movement, and thus wearies team and driver, and does no 'goodr 'Andi another objectv of the invention is to provide a stay to allow the Whittle-tree a certain play on the pivot, so that each animal ordinarily shall do al1-equal share of the work, but beyond that play, to hold the whiletree rigidly, so that if either animal goes forward, whatever is to be-hauled will be moved:

The accompanying drawings, andfollowing description, will fully illustrate the invention, drawings and description having like specifying-characters.

To all/.common draught-tongue A, pivot and fasten a rest or socket, B, two inches wide and-deep, and thick, provided with ahole, or step,7 one and a half inch in diameter, and one inch deep, and with arms projecting beyond the 'sides of the tongue one and\a half inch, all more or less.

Make a socket, O, similar in size and form to the socket, B, and put it on to the tongue, behind the socket B, and bend the arms down over the side corner-edges of the tongue into flanges or lips, to hold and guide the socket 0n the tongue, and permit it to slide forward and backward. Y

y Make a strap, D, twelve inches long, one-eighth inch thick, and oneI inch wide, all more-or less, bend it edgewise into V-form, fasten the two ends, seven inches apart, more or less, toa common Whittle-tree, E, equidistant from the middle, and pivot the apex, or bent narrow part of the V of the strap, to the socket G.

To maintain equality of pressure on all parts, it is better to make two V-form straps, and. fasten one to the top and the other to the bottom of socket and Whittle-tree.

AMake a buifer, F, of caoutchouc, or other elastic material, one and' a half inch in diameter and three inches long', all more or less, and put it into and 'between the sockets B and C.

Between the open ends of the V-form strap D, and between the whiiie-tree and tongue, on to and lengthwise of the while-tree, fasten the stay-strap G, with the ends next to and adjoining the ends of the .V-form strap D bent to form catches or stays, to stop against the corners of the tongue, to hohl the whiile-tree from vsliding any further across the tongue, and fromswinging any further forward. v

Thus made, in hauling a heavy thing, the whife-tree will pull the sliding socket O against the buifer F and the socket 5B, andthe buffer being yielding and elastic,

the shock of any sudden stoppage, from any impingement, will be relieved.; and the stays G, aftera certain playof the whiie-tree, will hold it from any further swinging, and compel either animal that goes forward to haul whatever the whifile-tree is attached to.

The nature of the invention is in providing a yielding, elastic buffer to the whiflle-trees of draught-teams, and also in providing a stay to hold the whifiie-tree rigid after a certain distance of play. Therefore,

' I claim the combination ofthe while-tree E, provided with a stay, G, and a V-form strapD, pvoted to a slide C, with a tongue, A, provided with a secket,

B, and a buffer, F,`as described for 'draught-teams.

- GEORGE W. N. YOST.

i Witnesses:

FRAK H. W. GEEGG, REED. G. OnosBY. 

